CLIENT APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, SERVER-BASED COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20080077660A1
• Filed: 09/26/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Tomida, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,219,685 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

A client apparatus which transmits a service request to a server apparatus via a network and comprises an input event detector configured to detect input events, an information generator configured to generate an item of information integrating items of information of the input events detected by the input event detector, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the item of information to the server apparatus.

Claims

1. A client apparatus which transmits a service request to a server apparatus via a network, the client apparatus comprising:

an input event detector configured to detect input events;

an information generator configured to generate an item of information integrating items of information of the input events detected by the input event detector; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the item of information to the server apparatus.

2. The client apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects interrelated input events.

3. The client apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects interrelated input events occurred in succession.

4. The client apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects the input events within a predetermined time period.

5. The client apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined time period is determined based on a time period in which the input events occur.

6. The client apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined time period is determined based on a mean value of the time period in which the input events occur.

7. The client apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects a button press event and a button release event, the button press event occurring when a button of an input device is depressed, the button release event occurring when the button is released.

8. The client apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects the button press event and the button release event within a predetermined time period.

9. The client apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the button press event and the button release event occur in succession.

10. The client apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the item of information comprises an information packet.

11. A server apparatus which transmits screen information to a client apparatus in response to a service request transmitted from the client apparatus via a network, the server apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive information transmitted from the client apparatus; and

a separating unit configured to separate the information received by the reception unit into items of information of input events.

12. The server apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

an event execution unit configured to execute processing corresponding to the input events based on the items of information of the input events.

13. The server apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect that the information contains the items of information of the input events, wherein

the separating unit separates the information into the items of information when the detection unit detects that the information contains the items of information.

14. A server based computing system which includes a client apparatus and a server apparatus, the client apparatus transmitting a service request to the server apparatus via a network, the server apparatus generating screen information in response to the service request,

the client apparatus comprising:

an input event detector configured to detect input events;

an information generator configured to generate an item of information integrating items of information of the input events detected by the input event detector; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the item of information to the server apparatus,

the server apparatus comprising;

a reception unit configured to receive information transmitted from the transmission unit; and

a separating unit configured to separate the information received by the reception unit into items of information of input events; and

an event execution unit configured to execute processing corresponding to the input events based on the items of information of the input events.

15. The server based computing system according to claim 14, wherein

the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects interrelated input events.

16. The server based computing system according to claim 14, wherein

the information generator generates the item of information when the input event detector detects the input events within a predetermined time period.

17. The server based computing system according to claim 14,

the server apparatus further comprising a detection unit configured to detect that the information contains the items of information of the input events,

wherein the separating unit separates the information into the items of information when the detection unit detects that the information contains the items of information.

18. A computer readable medium for storing program product for use with a client apparatus which transmits a service request to a server apparatus via a network, the program product comprising:

first computer readable program means for detecting input events;

second computer readable program means for generating an item of information integrating items of information of the detected input events; and

third computer readable program means for transmitting the item of information to the server apparatus.

19. A computer readable medium for storing program product for use with a server apparatus which transmits screen information to a client apparatus in response to a service request transmitted from the client apparatus via a network, the program product comprising:

first computer readable program means for receiving information transmitted from the client apparatus; and

second computer readable program means for separating the received information into items of information of input events.